Banknotes
A new series of banknotes, the "E-9 Emission Group" entered circulation on 1 January 2009, with the E-8 group ceasing to be valid after 31 December 2009 (although still redeemable at branches of the Central Bank until 31 December 2019). The E-9 banknotes refer to the currency as "Turkish lira" rather than "new Turkish lira", and include a new 200 Turkish lira denomination. The new banknotes have different sizes to prevent forgery. The main specificity of this new series is that each denomination depicts a famous Turkish personality, rather than geographical sites and architectural features of Turkey.
| Current Turkish lira banknotes | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image | Value |
Dimensions (mm) |
Main Colour | Description | Date of issue | |||||||
| Obverse | Reverse | Obverse | Reverse | Watermark | ||||||||
| 5 | 130 × 64 | Brown | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | Aydın Sayılı, diagrams of solar system, atom, ancient cave and a left-handed Z-DNA helix. | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Value | 1 January 2009 | ||||||
| 10 | 136 × 64 | Red | Cahit Arf, Arf invariant, arithmetic series, abacus, binary | |||||||||
| 20 | 142 × 68 | Green | Architect Kemaleddin, Gazi University main building, aqueduct, circular motif and cube-globe-cylinder symbolizing architecture | |||||||||
| 50 | 148 × 68 | Orange | Fatma Aliye Topuz, flower and literary figures | |||||||||
| 100 | 154 × 72 | Blue | Buhurizade Itri, notes, instruments and Mevlevi figure | |||||||||
| 200 | 160 × 72 | Violet | Yunus Emre, Yunus's mausoleum, rose, pigeon and the line "Sevelim, sevilelim" (Let us love, let us be loved) | |||||||||
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